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The ‘not sorry’ saga continued at Queen’s Park Friday as a legal stare down between Premier Kathleen Wynne and Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown.

Jennifer Beaudry, a spokesperson for Wynne, expressed disappointment in Brown’s unapologetic response to demands that he withdraw his “false and defamatory” statement about the Premier.

“While Patrick Brown refuses to apologize, we are encouraged that media coverage and public discussion over the last 48 hours has covered just how wrong and misleading his comments were,” Beaudry said in a statement. “We continue to consider all of our options at this point in time, and will govern ourselves by the timelines set out in the Libel and Slander Act.”

Wynne has threatened legal action against Brown, demanding he apologize for saying that she was on trial in the ongoing court case in the Sudbury job bribery scandal.

Her former chief of staff and a senior party organizer are on trial, although both have said they did nothing wrong, for allegedly offering a job or appointment to move a would-be Liberal byelection candidate aside for a preferred candidate, Glenn Thibeault.

Wynne testified this week as a willing Crown witness.

Nick Bergamini, a spokesperson for Brown, said Friday in a statement that the Liberals’ legal threat will be disregarded.

“No one, whatever their political view, wants to see the Premier of our province debased through participation in a corruption trial. Regrettably, Kathleen Wynne compounded this sorry spectacle with baseless legal threats against Patrick Brown,” he said. “These threats will be ignored. We as a province need to put this ugly chapter behind us and move on.”

Wynne had previously launched a $2 million libel suit against former PC Leader Tim Hudak and then PC energy critic Lisa MacLeod for comments they made in connection with the cancelled gas plant scandal.

The Premier subsequently dropped the case, after Hudak failed to lead his party to victory in the 2014 general election and quit politics, and a joint statement acknowledged the debate had become “personal.”